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Schneier: Threats shift to databases

Florence Olsen writes on FCW.com that:

Cryptography has diminished somewhat in importance as threats to information security shift from eavesdropping to attempts to gain control of computers and networks, a cryptographic expert said this week at the Gartner IT Security Summit in Washington, D.C.

Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer at Counterpane Internet Security, said protecting data while it is stored on networks and PC computers has emerged as a greater threat than unauthorized sniffing of data packets as they are transmitted over a network.

posted by Fergie @ 6/07/2005 08:13:00 AM